CONNECTING THE DOTS

The Hellhole Into Which We Fall

How arrogant or stupid can the leaders of the United
States be? How sheep-like can American
citizens remain? What kind of a future
do we bequeath to our children?

How many people
is appropriate?

The signs manifest everywhere. With all the signs of climate change crashing onto
our planet, with all the gridlocked cities, with all the air pollution— wouldn't
you think we would connect the dots?

Instead, like the passengers on the Titanic, we sail
along thinking that the captain and crew know what they're doing! They don't!

Instead, we're allowing ourselves to be led to the
slaughterhouse like cattle to get butchered.

Think carrying capacity

If you're stuck in traffic daily that moves like
hardened cement, wouldn't you rail at the cause? While your kids suffer asthma, wouldn't you
rail against the obvious reasons? With
your schools overrun, wouldn't you stand up and speak out?

Short answer: NO!

David Nicholson, writing in the Canberra Times,
Australia, said,

"The simplest
truths are sometimes the hardest to recognize. This month, the world's
population will reach 6.7 billion, en route to a newly revised global total of
9.2 billion by 2050."

In April and May, economist Jeffrey Sachs devoted his
'BBC Reith lectures' to a planet bursting at the seams.

"In the midst of all these alarms is a very quiet
place in which the green lobby should be talking about human population growth. It might have been the World Population
Day on Wednesday, but big environment and development groups won't be
mounting a campaign on population."

Their silence on population was 'deafening.'

"Today Greenpeace and Sierra Club say population is ''not an
issue for us'' – and describe it as ''a factor [in] but not one of the drivers
of'' environmental problems.

"The green lobby's main argument is that numbers do
not matter so much; it is how we live and consume that counts. Friends of the Earth even remarks that,
''it is unhelpful to enter into a debate about numbers. The key issue is the need for the Government
to implement policies that respect environmental limits.''

Oblivious!

It is a statement that seems to treat population and
environmental limits as entirely separate subjects.

Nicholson continued, "There are two powerful counter-
arguments to this. One is common sense:
that consumption and numbers matter and that if a consumer is absent (that is,
unborn) then so is his or her consumption. The second is the weight of evidence."

"The British Government's chief scientist, Sir David
King, told a parliamentary inquiry last year,

''It is
self-evident that the massive growth in the human population through the 20th
century has had more impact on biodiversity than any other single factor.''

The increase in global population over the next 40
years is roughly what the entire world population was in 1950.

"Ironically, the world now views climate change as
the greatest environmental threat but sees the solution in primarily technical
terms."

"Yet expert bodies routinely identify human numbers
as one of the main engines of climate change. Surely people are part of the solution? It is far easier to ignore the whole subject;
let somebody else or nobody deal with it."

This often involves intriguing verbal contortions.

The '70s organization Population Countdown, having morphed
into Population Concern, in 2003
rechristened itself as Interact
Worldwide. Under its former name,
consultants said, its funding, and future, would dry up.

Faced with escalating forecasts of housing need in
the UK, one recent government projection says Britain will need 11 million more
households by 2050, an increase of more than 40 per cent.

"So why doesn't the organization campaign on the
issue that poses the greatest threat to rural England?"

Population growth is priority one, but few get the
point

The organization's chief executive Shaun Spiers says,
''If we did, it appears unlikely that our actions would have any effect on
population growth, and that would lay us open to the charge of misusing our
charitable funds.''

As a result, family size is seen as an exercise in
individual lifestyle choice: few people consider the consequences for the planet
of their fertility decisions. That means fertility rates in the U.K. keep rising
and the population keeps growing.

"It was Mark Twain who observed that those who
refused to share vital information with others were guilty of a 'silent lie.' The green movement needs to start
telling us the truth."

David Nicholson-Lord is a British environmental
writer and research associate for the Optimum Population Trust.

Fellow Americans, England is an island.

It's going to add 11 million if it does nothing.

Bangladesh features 144 million people within
a landmass the size of Ohio. They're expected to double their population to 290
million by 2050. That's like shoving
most of the current US population into Ohio!
Guess what? The U.S. is growing at more than 3.1 million
annually!

Name one advantage for adding 100 million people to
the United States in the next 30 years. As we move into this presidential
election cycle, I implore you to bring the population issue to your delegates. I beseech you to raise your voices that
you don't want to add 100 million people and more to the USA. Fellow Americans, we're in SO much trouble. Yet, we do nothing to change our
Titanic-like direction.

Frosty,
I didnot have to read very far to realize the new world order of population control propaganda in this article.
No one in their right mind would accept this malarky !
None who have seen the open spaces throughout
the world could agree with population control.
All species of life have a timetable of existance and re population including man. Natural life and death cycles are clear.
Don**Q**t concern yourselves with natural resources, It has been proven there is an almost un exaustable supply. We have had our hands tied by big buisness and government,to prevent us from useing them , not only the reserves we have under the earth, but wind, and solar power. The ocean has been a source of power fron the tidal currents,being exploited. There is no shortage of anything except honesty and the quest to benefit all.
The type of propaganda presented from these idiots is revolting and without merit.
Common sense and a little research will prove my point.